Joe South - Retrospect
A few years back I asked a critic friend if there was a good Joe South collection available on compact disc. No, came the expected reply, along with a partial explanation: When it comes to Joe South, "Yankees don't get it."
Yet back in 1969, South
Stacey Earle - Making her own name
Family and self-reliance are two concepts central to Stacey Earle's life and career. While her brother Steve's dramatic ups and downs have been the subject of news reports and magazine profiles, Stacey has experienced considerable personal turbulence without all the public attention. But this relative
Shel Silverstein: 1930 to 1999
Every kid wants to grow up and be like his daddy -- my daddy just happened to write songs, record them, and shake his butt on stages all over the world. And in the eyes of my parents, there is no occupation more noble than that of a songwriter -- a really
Gram Parsons - A long-lost soul for a long, long time
If Gram Parsons knew when he scribbled those words in a 1972 letter that 21 years later country music's biggest stars would record a best-selling tribute album to the Eagles, he probably would have been aghast. Though his oft-stated desire was to introduce pure, unadulterated country
Darrell Scott - Household man
Three-year-old Gabriel Scott is lying on his back in a guitar case, floating on a placid, moss-colored pond and gazing at the sky. That image adorns the cover of his father's new CD, Family Tree. The idea, says the senior Scott, came from photographer Senor
Cynthia Gayneau - Sister in the sun
Nobody with any degree of hipness aspired to sing on Broadway in 1966, so when 16-year-old Cynthia Gano ruined her voice smoking cigarettes, she didn't much feel the loss of withdrawing from those classes. Thirty years later, she finally found time to sing what she really